When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that …

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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains Echoed, p.12, A&C Black
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When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2013). And the Mountains Echoed, p.12, A&C Black

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